







REPORT 


ON THE 

RE-BITRTAAL 

OF THE 

CONFEDERATE DEAD 

IN 

ARLINGTON CEMETERY 


AND 


ATTENTION CATTED TO THE CARE REQUIRED 

FOR THE 

GRAVES OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS 

WHO DIED IN 

FEDERAT PRISONS AND MITITARY HOSPITATS 

NOW BURIED IN 
NORTHERN STATES 




BY THE 

CHARLES BROADWAY ROUSS CAMP 

NO. HOI 

UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS 
WASHINGTON 







WASHINGTON, D. C. 

JUDD & DETWEIEER, PRINTERS 
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COMMITTEE 


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CONFEDERATE DEAD 


Samuee E. Lewis. M. D. 
E. W. Anderson 
Henry M. Marchant 
Wieeiam Broun 
John M. Hickey 
Nathan C. Munroe 
Sieas Hare 
Jueian G. Moore 
George C. Giddings 


District of Columbia 
District of Columbia 
Texas 
Virginia 
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Georgia 
Texas 
North Carolina 
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PREFACE. 


This report is issued for the information of the Camps of the 
Association of the United Confederate Veterans, in compliance 
with the following resolution : 

“Headquarters 

“ Charles Broadway Rouss Camp, 

“ No. 1191, U. C. V., 

“Washington, D. C., Tuesday, November 12, 1901. 

“Resolved , That the final report upon the gathering together 
of the heretofore scattered Confederate dead in the Soldiers’ 
Home National Cemeter3L in the District of Columbia, and those 
in the older part of the National Cemetery at Arlington, Vir¬ 
ginia, into the new ‘ Coiifederate section ’ in Arlington Ceme¬ 
tery, and marking their graves with white marble headstones 
adequately inscribed, is hereby accepted and adopted. 

“And being of the opinion that the history of the reburial 
at Arlington, the views of eminent Confederate leaders and 
prominent societies regarding the same, and the action of the 
Reunion Convention at Memphis, Tennessee, 1901, relating to 
the Confederate dead are matters wherein many Confederate 
veterans feel a deep interest and desire to be informed ; there¬ 
fore be it further 

“Resolved , That the report dated April 25, 1901, be returned 
to the Chairman of the Committee on Confederate Dead, and 
that he be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to have 
printed, in pamphlet form suitable for distribution to the camps 
of the United Confederate Veterans, the final report hereinbe¬ 
fore referred to, with the report dated April 25, 1901, the reso¬ 
lution passed at Memphis May 29, 1901, all necessary maps 
and diagrams, and such additional matter as may be necessary 
to clearly set forth the entire subject in a proper manner. 

“Adopted. 

“Samuel E. Lewis, 

“ Commander Charles Broadway Rouss Camp , U. C. V. 

“A true copy. 

“ Wm. Broun, AdjutantN 





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The Final Report of the Committee on Confederate Dead. 

Headquarters 

Charles Broadway Rouss Camp, 

No. 1191, U. C. V., 

Washington, D. C., Tuesday, November 12, 1901. 

The Chairman of the Committee on Confederate Dead re¬ 
spectfully submits for consideration the final report upon the 
reburial in the new “ Coyifederate section ” in the National 
Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia. 1 

It is but fitting to state in brief resume that the investiga¬ 
tion as to the condition of the graves of the Confederate dead 
in the older part of Arlington Cemetery begun in August, 
1898, having been followed on December 14, 1S98, by the 
patriotic speech of President McKinley, at Atlanta, Georgia, 
the way appeared open for remedial measures, and a petition 
to him, June 5, 1899, resulted in appropriation by Congress, 
approved June 6, 1900, and the order for the execution of the 
work by the Secretary of War April 25, 1901. 

By order of the Quartermaster General, the Depot Quarter¬ 
master at Washington at once commenced work by advertis¬ 
ing for proposals for the disinterment of the one hundred and 
twenty-eight Confederate dead in the National Soldiers’ Home 
Cemetery, in the District of Columbia, and the one hundred 
and thirty-six Confederate dead in the older part of the Na¬ 
tional Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, and the reburial of the 
entire number (264) in a separate plot of ground set aside in 
the newer part of x\rlington Cemetery, named the “ Confederate 
section The reburial having been accomplished, proposals 
were invited for furnishing new white marble headstones, 
thirty-six inches long, ten inches wide, and four inches thick, 
inscribed in succession from the top downward with the num¬ 
ber of the grave, the name of the Confederate soldier , his com¬ 
pany , regiment , State , and finally the letters C. S. A. 

The general survey, laying out the bounds of the section, 
outlining the burial sites and carriage drives , and designat¬ 
ing the individual graves , having been previously made and 
mapped, and, as above stated, the reburial having been accom¬ 
plished, the engineer officer made the necessary levelings for 


the carriage drives, drainage, etc., while the headstones were 
being prepared, and the remaining work to be done definitely 
ascertained. In brief, two thousand cubic yards of earth were 
required for filling in depressed portions of the section ; the 
carriage drives were excavated to required grade to receive 
about thirteen or fourteen inches of material to form a solid 
and firm, but, at the same time, elastic road-bed built up as 
follows from the bottom: six inches of broken cobble-stone 
dressed with about two inches of loose earth for the purpose of 
binding, well tamped and rolled, followed by a mixture of 
three inches of gravel from the gravel pit on the grounds and 
three inches of clean Potomac river gravel well intermixed and 
well rolled to the utmost degree of compactness, and to an es¬ 
tablished grade longitudinally and arched transversely. Drain¬ 
age established through well-built cobble-stone gutters on each 
side of the drives empties into ample pressed brick basins, 
conveying the water to the low grounds far distant through 
eight-inch terra-cotta drainage pipe. The entire surface of the 
burial site and its boundaries was thoroughly and plentifully 
covered with rich compost, well harrowed in, and sown with 
grass .seed. 

The setting of the headstones was completed about October 
i, 1901, and was the final stage except the planting of the trees 
and shrubbery, which will probably be deferred till early next 
spring. The time required for the execution of the work was 
about five months. 

The expenditure of money has thus far been about seven 
thousand dollars, as follows: Appropriated by Congress, 
$2,500; requisition upon the annual fund of the cemetery, 
$2,500, and a further requisition, amount unknown, perhaps 
one or two thousand dollars. Hereafter the care given will be 
the same as for all other parts of the cemetery provided for by 
annual appropriation of Congress. 

From the beginning of the work your committee has wit¬ 
nessed every stage till its full completion. They have seen 
the old graves excavated to their original extent, the new 
coffins made, the entire remains removed and placed in the 
new coffins, the excavation of the new graves, the reinter-, 
merits, the filling up of the new graves and the old ones, and 
finally the setting of the white marble headstones. They have 


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also seen the surveys and levelings, the excavations for the 
carriage drives and the filling up of the depressed portions 
alluded to, the building of the gutters and basins, the lay¬ 
ing of the drain pipes and the building up of the carriage 
drives; and your committee takes great pleasure in testifying 
to the exact compliance with the specifications, and that all 
has been done in a thoroughly workmanlike manner, entirely 
satisfactory to us and highly creditable to all concerned. 

The care exercised by the Government that the inscriptions 
upon the new headstones should be as near absolutely correct 
as possible is especially worthy of mention. Arlington Cem¬ 
etery was established in 1864, and at that time but a small reg¬ 
ister was needed ; but as the number of interments grew to 
many thousands (18,000), it became often necessary to make 
new registers, and as often as a new one was made clerical errors 
crept in, and past errors were perpetuated and multiplied, so 
that finally there became very many errors as to name and 
rank. 

When the time came to prepare the inscriptions for the new 
headstones the Depot Quartermaster sent the lists, drawn 
from the existing registers in the Superintendent’s office at the 
cemeteries, to the War Department for correction by actual 
comparison with the muster-rolls in the Confederate archives 
of the Department. Thus there can scarcely be in the result 
an error at all possible to have been avoided. It is difficult to 
estimate the importance of this care upon the part of Maj. T. E. 
True, the Depot Quartermaster. 

In compliance with the resolution of the Camp dated May 
14, 1901, as follows : 

“ Resolved , That Commander S. E. Lewis be directed to pre¬ 
pare a statement of the labors performed by the Charles Broad¬ 
way Rouss Camp, No. 1191, United Confederate Veterans, in 
its efforts to secure the collection of the Confederate dead in 
the District of Columbia and vicinity and the reinterment of 
their remains in a section of the Arlington National Cemetery, 
to be known as the ‘Confederate section,’ and furnish the 
same to Gen. John B. Gordon for the information of the Con¬ 
vention of the United Confederate Veterans, to be held at the 
reunon at Memphis, May, 1901.” 

the chairman of the committee prepared a report, somewhat 
in detail, as to the status of the matter up to April 25, 1901, 


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and incidentally commented upon the necessity for requesting 
Congress to take appropriate action for the care of the 28,000 
Confederate dead said to be remaining in the Northern States. 
This report was designed to be laid before the Convention of 
the United Confederate Veterans at Memphis for their informa¬ 
tion, together with a resolution, to be adopted, thanking Con¬ 
gress and the President for the appropriation for the reburial at 
Arlington. The resolution was offered and adopted. 

The entire report was laid before Gen. Stephen D. Lee, whose 
headquarters had been courteously tendered to your commit¬ 
tee for its use, and there it was carefully read and received the 
approval of the many eminent visiting Confederate soldiers 
actively engaged in the work of the United Confederate Vet¬ 
erans’ Association; but, owing to the shortness of the session 
and other reasons unnecessary to mention, there was no suit¬ 
able opportunity for it to be submitted to the assembled Con¬ 
vention, but the substance of it was ably presented to the Com¬ 
mittee on Resolutions by Col. Hilary A. Herbert, the member 
on that committee from the District of Columbia; and your 
chairman assisted by exhibiting and explaining the maps of 
Arlington Cemetery, the new Confederate Section and the burial 
site, the specifications for the disinterment and reinterment and 
for the new headstones, and the diagram accompanying the 
latter. 

A duplicate of the report was presented to Gen. Stephen D. 
Lee, the chairman of the Historical Committee of the United 
Confederate Veterans’ Association, for such use as he might 
deem fitting, and the other copy is herewith returned to the 
Camp for its disposal. 

Respectfully, Samuel E. Lewis, 

Chairman . 


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Report oti the Present Condition and the Care of the Confederate 
Dead in the District of Columbia and Immediate Vicinity. 

Headquarters 

Charles Broadway Rouss Camp, 

No. 1191, U. C. V., 

1418 Fourteenth Street N. W., 
Washington, D. C., April 25, 1901. 

Gen. John B. Gordon, 

Commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans. 

General: In compliance with resolution adopted by the 
Camp, I have the honor to submit the following report relating 
to the Confederate dead in the District of Columbia and imme¬ 
diate vicinity: 

It has not yet been definitely learned how many remain. 

It was currently known to Confederates here in the early 
years after the close of the war that there were seventeen un¬ 
known near Fort Stevens, just outside the boundary line of 
the District, who had been left by Gen. Jubal A. Early on the 
field of battle after his attack on Washington city, July 11, 
1864, and that there were three hundred and seventy-seven in 
Arlington cemetery. In the early seventies two hundred and 
forty-one of the latter were removed to the States of Vir¬ 
ginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, leaving one hundred 
and thirty-six, which remain to the present day. Those near 
Fort Stevens were many years ago gathered together and 
buried in a common grave at Grace church, Woodside, 
Montgomery county, Maryland, and in 1896 the Confederates 
of that county and of the District of Columbia erected there a . 
handsome monument to their memory. 

From the time of the removal of the 241 dead above referred 
to until August, 1898, every one was under the impression 
that there were no Confederate dead anywhere near here, ex¬ 
cept, perhaps, a scattering half dozen in Arlington and those 
above referred to at Woodside. But at that time a few veterans, 
of their own volition, undertook to make an investigation. 
They were surprised to find, after considerable difficulty, the 
graves of one hundred and thirty-six in Arlington, scattered 
about the cemetery, mainly in four irregular, straggling groups. 


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widely separated and intermingled with those of the Union sol¬ 
diers, quartermaster department employes, State prisoners, citi¬ 
zens, and others, where they had been indiscriminately buried 
during the war. In this cemetery there are more than seven¬ 
teen thousand graves, of which about twelve thousand and five 
hundred are the Union soldier dead. The other classes named 
constitute the remainder, and each grave of these four thousand 
and five hundred or more has a white marble headstone, two 
inches thick, ten inches wide, and twenty inches in height, of 
exactly the same description in every respect, and inscribed 
thereon the number of the grave and the name of the individual 
(as: “250—John Doe"). There is no possible way to distinguish 
the several classes from each other ; no way to learn from them 
which are Confederates or whether they were soldiers at all. 
They have received, and still do receive, the same care as is 
given to the Union dead, but it is impossible for a visitor to 
identify the Confederates, except by reference to the register, 
far away in the Superintendent’s office in the mansion. 

From 1861 to 1865 this city and its vicinity was frightful 
with the deadly activity of war, and many Confederate soldiers 
and State prisoners were brought to its prisons and hospitals, 
in which a large number of them died and were buried here, 
principally in the National Military Cemetery at the Soldiers’ 
Home and the National Military Cemetery at Arlington. 
Amidst the rush and turmoil of rapidly succeeding events, such 
care as was possible was taken that all dead should be given 
decent burial and proper record, whether they were Federal 
soldiers, employes of the Government, citizen refugees, State 
prisoners, Confederate soldiers, etc. 

From the time of their burial all alike were marked by tem¬ 
porary head-boards, similar to those which today mark the 
graves of the Spanish-Americau soldiers and the Maine seamen 
at Arlington, until, in the year 1867, the Congress of the United 
States began legislation which resulted, in 1874, in replacing 
them by white marble headstones; those which mark the 
graves of the Federal soldiers being from eighteen to twenty 
inches above ground, ten inches wide, and four inches thick, 
the others of the same height and width, but only two inches 
thick. The numbers of the graves and the names are recorded 
in the same registers and in the same manner as are those of 


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the Federal dead—the Confederates being properly indicated 
under the head of “Remarks.” The graves of all are well 
sodded and cared for by appropriate regulations, applicable to 
all alike. 

In order that the facts so far learned might receive proper 
record for possible future use, it was the intention to prepare a 
full statement of the same, to be transmitted to Gen. Stephen D. 
Tee, the Chairman of the Historical Committee of the United 
Confederate Veterans. While the statement was being pre¬ 
pared, however, Mr. McKinley made the now famous speech 
at Atlanta, Georgia, December 14, 1898, regarding the sharing 
with us in the care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers, 
which is here quoted from the Atlci7ita Constitution of Decem¬ 
ber 15, 1898 : 

“ Sectional lines no longer mar the map of the United States. 
Sectional feeling no longer holds back the love we bear each 
other. Fraternity is the national anthem, sung by a chorus 
of forty-five States and our Territories at home and beyond 
the seas. The Union is once more the common altar of our 
love and loyalty, our devotion and sacrifice. The old flag 
again waves over us in peace, with new glories which }^our 
sons and ours have this year added to its sacred folds. What 
cause we have for rejoicing, saddened only by the fact that so 
many of our brave men fell on field or sickened and died from 
hardship and exposure, and others, returning, bring wounds 
and disease from which they will long suffer. The memory of 
the dead will be a precious legacy, and the disabled will be the 
nation’s care. 

“A nation which cares for its disabled soldiers, as we have 
always done, will never lack defenders. The national cem¬ 
eteries for those who fell in battle are proof that the dead as 
well as the living have our love. What an army of silent sen¬ 
tinels we have, and with what loving care their graves are 
kept! Every soldier’s grave made during our unfortunate 
civil war is a tribute to American valor. 

“And while when these graves were made we differed 
widely about the future of this Government, these differences 
were long ago settled by the arbitrament of arms; and the 
time has now come in the evolution of sentiment and feeling, 
under the providence of God, when in the spirit of fraternity 
we should share with you in the care of the graves of the Con¬ 
federate soldiers. 

“The cordial feeling now happily existing between the 
North and South prompts this gracious act, and if it needed 


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further justification it is found in the gallant loyalty to the 
Union and the flag so conspicuously shown in the year just 
passed by the sons and grandsons of these heroic dead. 

What a glorious future awaits us if unitedly, wisely, and 
bravely we face the new problems now pressing upon us, de¬ 
termined to solve them for right and humanity! ” 

After due consideration, it was determined to make of avail 
the favorable opportunity thus presented to request the Pres¬ 
ident to take executive action for the carrying out such re¬ 
medial measures as were deemed desirable, and accordingly 
a petition to that end was laid before him by the Charles Broad¬ 
way Rouss Camp, No. 1191, United Confederate Veterans, 
June 5, 1899. (See Appendix “A.”) It was received most 
kindly by him, and in August of the same year a site was 
designated by the Government in the new part of Arlington 
Cemetery, and drawings made of plans for a place to which all 
the Confederate dead now in the national cemeteries within or 
in the immediate vicinity of the District of Columbia .should be 
gathered together, to be designated as the “ Confederate sec¬ 
tion but unfortunately, owing to there being no provision 
of law at that time by which the work could properly be done 
and there being no available funds with which to do it, the 
project was for the time being indefinitely postponed. 

Upon this state of the matter being laid before Senator 
Hawley by Gen. Marcus J. Wright, the Senator requested 
that the condition of affairs at Arlington be briefly stated in 
■writing, accompanied with an estimate of the amount of money 
necessary to carry out the remedial measures required, and 
kindly said that he would consult the President, and, meet¬ 
ing with his approval and consent, he would offer an amend- 
. ment to the sundry civil expense appropriation bill, 011 
its coming to the Senate, for an appropriation of the amount 
of money required. The undersigned, at that time chairman 
of the Committee on Confederate Dead in the District of Co¬ 
lumbia, accordingly furnished a statement in writing, with 
some necessary drawings, for the use of Senator Hawley, and 
.also for Mr. Cannon, the chairman of the Appropriation Com¬ 
mittee of the House of Representatives; and Senator Hawley 
having requested General Wright to prepare an amendment 
to meet the case, he and the undersigned jointly prepared a 


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suitable one, to be added to said bill, designed to obtain the 
remedial measures desired. This effort met with the approval 
and cordial support of Senator William B. Bate and Senator 
T. B. Turley, of Tennessee ; Senator F. M. Cockrell, of Mis¬ 
souri; Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama, and of the Horn 
Joseph Cannon, chairman of the Appropriation Committee of 
the House of Representatives, and others; and when finally 
announced met with the hearty support of all, and was adopted 
by Congress and approved by the President June 6, 1900. 

The law thus enacted is as follows : 

“ (Public.—No. 163.) 

“An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Gov¬ 
ernment for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred 

and one, and for other purposes. 

‘ i Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives op 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for 
the objects hereinafter expressed for the fiscal year ending June 
thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, namely : 

“Under the War Department. 

‘ ‘ National Cemeteries. 

“ To enable the Secretary of War to have reburied in some 
suitable spot in the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, 
and to place proper headstones at their graves, the bodies of 
about one hundred and twent3^-eight Confederate .soldiers now 
buried in the National Soldiers’ Home, near Washington, Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia, and the bodies of about one hundred and 
thirty-six Confederate soldiers now buried in the National Cem¬ 
etery at Arlington, Virginia, two thousand five hundred dollars, 
or so much thereof as may be necessary.” 

It is necessary to state in order to explain, that after the pre¬ 
sentation of the petition to the President, June 5, 1899, unex¬ 
pectedly an additional number (one hundred and twenty-eight) 
of graves of Confederate soldiers was found in the National 
Soldiers’ Home Cemetery, in the District of Columbia, and 
these were therefore incorporated in a supplement to the peti¬ 
tion, which was made to the President July 13, 1899. (See 
Appendix C.) 

After the enactment of June 6, 1900, the proposed site was 
surveyed and staked off, ready to begin work in October of that 


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year, but it was thought proper to defer it until the lists of the 
Confederate dead of both cemeteries could be published in the 
press throughout the South, with the announcement that all rel¬ 
atives desiring to remove their dead might be given opportunity 
to do so. This was accordingly done, but it is understood that 
no remains whatever have been asked for by any of the rela¬ 
tives. 

Having waited to the last possible moment before the lapse 
of the appropriation, July i, 1901, to hear from relatives of 
the dead and hearing from none, the Secretary of War, on the 
25th of April, 1901, has given final directions for the execu¬ 
tion of the work, and it will be commenced at once and pushed 
vigorously to completion, as originally projected. 

Pending action by the Secretary of War, a few of our South¬ 
ern ladies made application to him for permission to remove all 
these remains to Hollywood Cemetery, near Richmond, Vir¬ 
ginia, or to some other oneof the large cemeteriesof the South, 
or to the several States from which the soldiers came. It was 
a most impracticable conception. Their patriotic sentiments, 
of course, are fully appreciated, as is also their indefatigable 
energy in the prosecution of all work relating to Confederate 
affairs. But in the District of Columbia, of nearly three hun¬ 
dred thousand population, there is embraced about one hun¬ 
dred thousand who constitute a Southern community, made up 
of citizens from all the Southern States and their children, 
having the same thoughts and feelings and the same devotion 
as those still farther south. We feel that our fair sisters in 
the farther south have not clearly understood that which we 
are endeavoring to do and the labor it has cost us. They seem 
to forget that we are Southern as well as they. 

We feel that if they could be brought to understand this they 
would leave us unhampered in our local work, and, indeed, 
would come to our aid most cheerfully. There is work enough 
for all, and for us older ones but little time remaining in which 
to do it. It must be evident that if local work is to be inter¬ 
fered with anywhere by those at a distance it cannot serve other¬ 
wise than to discourage that active patriotic effort and emula¬ 
tion which should be ever encouraged and which would prove 
productive of the best results. 

That the work will be satisfactory to all, when completed 


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there can be no reasonable room for doubt, for the site is most 
prominent and eligible in every way, and the plan of reburial 
most beautiful, as is shown by the drawings and explanatory 
notes which are hereto appended. (See Appendix N, P, Q, 
and R, &c.) 

In this beautiful plot are to be gathered together all the now 
scattered dead, each grave properly marked with a white marble 
tombstone, where hereafter we can keep faithful guard over 
the graves of these patriotic soldiers; keep them green and 
preserve and perpetuate them in the care of our children as a 
sacred patriotic shrine for all Southern people who may here¬ 
after visit the city of Washington, as is beautifully expressed 
in the resolution of the Ladies’ Southern Relief Society of this 
city. 

It is fitting that the Charles Broadway Rouss Camp of Con¬ 
federate Veterans, and especially the committee entrusted with 
the work in hand, testify their high appreciation of the commend¬ 
able attitude of the Government throughout. The kindly spirit 
exhibited by all, from the President to the humble employe, 
has been remarkable and foreshadows what might be accom¬ 
plished if our efforts be properly directed in the like right spirit. 
From our first approach to the President our views and expression 
of desires have been requested, and all we hoped for has been 
cheerfully and promptly granted, and even the delay which has 
ensued in the execution of the law of Congress was itself an 
effort upon the part of the Secretary of War to afford an op¬ 
portunity for full expression of Southern sentiment regarding 
the matter, and for relatives who might so desire to remove 
their dead. It is with great pleasure that honorable mention 
is made of Mr. George B. Cortelyou, the Secretar} 7 to the Pres¬ 
ident ; of Major T. E. True, United States Army, the Depot 
Quartermaster ; of Mr. Charles E. Miller, the clerk in charge 
of cemetery affairs in his office; of Col. W. H. Owen, civil engi¬ 
neer, Quartermaster’s Department, and of Superintendent A. B. 
Drum, of Arlington Cemetery. These gentlemen with the ut¬ 
most courtesy afforded the committee every facility for acquir¬ 
ing information, showing kindly sympathy and rendering val¬ 
uable aid. 

But there is also much work to be done in the care of the 
twenty-eight thousand Confederate dead scattered throughout 


the Northern States, already too long deferred, and however 
willing we may be, we acknowledge onr inability to effect the 
desired result. 

Jt is stated (unofficially) at the Quartermaster’s Department 
that acceptable headstones could be delivered at the several 
national cemeteries in the North at a cost not exceeding two 
dollars and a half ($2.50) each. 

Col. Robert C. Wood, in his “Confederate Hand-book,’’ 
prepared with great care and published in New Orleans, Louis¬ 
iana, in 1900, states as follows (page 38) : 

Confederate Prisoners Co7ifined in Federal Prisons and Number of 

Deaths in Each. 


Name of prison. 

Number 

confined. 

Deaths. 

Percentage. 

Point Lookout, Md .. 

38,073 

3,446 

9 - 

Fort Delaware, Del.. 

22,773 

2,502 

10 9 

Camp Douglas, Ill.. 

22,301 

3,759 

16.8 

Camp Chase, Ohio. 

14,227 

2,108 

15 - 

Camp Morton, Ind. 

10,319 

1,763 

17 

Elmira, N. Y. 

9,167 

2,980 

32 5 

Louisville, Kv. .... 

8,438 

1 39 

i -7 

Alton, Ill. 

7,717 

1,613 

20 9 

Johnson’s Island. 

7,357 

275 

3-7 

Old Capitol, D. C.. 

5 , 76 i 

457 

7-9 

Newport News, Va.. ... 

5,459 

89 

1.6 

Fort McHenry, Md. ... 

5,325 

33 

.62 

Ship Island, Miss. 

4,879 

162 

3-3 

St. Louis, Mo. 

4,585 

589 

i -3 

Camp Butler, Ill. 

4 D 54 

816 

19.6 

Hart’s Island, N. Y. . 

3> II 7 

230 

7-4 

Rock Island, Ill. 

2,484 

1,922 

77-4 

Total. 

176,136 

22,878 

12.9 


“The remaining 43,864 of the 220,000 Confederate prisoners were con¬ 
fined in Fort Warren, Fort Lafayette, and other prisons. The above 
table has been so frequently used without question of its accuracy, that 
it may be accepted as reliable.” 

On the presumption that the percentage of deaths in the 
43,864 at Fort Warren, Fort Lafayette, and other prisons was 
about the same as the percentage in the 176,136 in the table 
furnished, it may be assumed that there is a total of 22,878 4- 
3,263 = 28,141—say 28,000—Confederate dead remaining un¬ 
cared for in the North, which may be marked with enduring 







































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headstones suitably inscribed at a cost of $70,000. To correct 
the entries in the registers at the cemeteries by verification from 
the Confederate archives at present in the War Department, at 
Washington, as far as they possibly show, would necessitate 
in clerical labor, stationery, etc., several thousand dollars addi¬ 
tional—say $80,000 in all. As it may be possible that these 
figures are too close, and that a suitable margin for errors and 
contingencies should be allowed, it is reasonable to add 25 per 
cent, additional, making a total of $100,000. 

It would seem but the part of wisdom that a committee should 
be appointed to ascertain the facts regarding these matters and 
lay them before the Convention at the next annual reunion, with 
the view of obtaining future action thereon by the United States 
Congress. 

The early attention to the care of these dead in a manner 
satisfactory to the Southern people would be productive of 
much good, far beyond the value of the money expended and 
the trouble and care of carrying it out, in its tendency to re¬ 
move from discussion a still fruitful source of irritation. 

It is sincerely trusted that an effort may be made at the Re¬ 
union to bring our people into accord. Especially is it to be 
hoped that our patriotic Southern women may be prevailed 
upon to relinquish their views regarding the removal of the 
Confederate dead from the Northern States to the South at 
this late day. Our Southern people and their children are 
now to be found not only in the South, but living permanently 
in every State and Territory of the Union, and we feel assured 
that if we could succeed in bringing to light and placing endur¬ 
ing headstones over the 28,000 Confederate dead in the North, 
that the watchfulness of our friends and their children would 
see that they have all proper care in the present and for per¬ 
petuity. It should be borne in mind that the records in the 
cemetery registers concerning these dead have existed in great 
measure undisturbed since the war, and it is possible now to 
have access to them and learn the whereabouts of the graves; 
but once disturbed and possibly destroyed by removal, all pos¬ 
sible chance will be lost for identification hereafter. This 
would .be desecration and a great wrong to their possible living 
relatives or descendants. Every one must concede that to 
gather our scattered dead into one suitable plot and properly 


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mark their graves and perfect the entries in the register in the 
cemetery is a betterment of their condition which it is our 
sacred duty to perform for those who are to succeed us and for 
the truth of history. 

It is believed that the veterans in convention assembled will 
regard with approbation the enactment of the law heretofore 
referred to and the execution of the work in accordance there¬ 
with, and that suitable resolutions appreciative of the action 
of Congress and its approval by the President, with honorable 
mention of Senator Hawley and Representative Cannon for 
their kindly offices in bringing about the congressional action, 
will be adopted. 

Herewith are submitted copies of the petition to the Presi¬ 
dent of the United States, June 5, 1899; the supplement to the 
petition, July 13, 1899; letters endorsing the reburial at Arling¬ 
ton from Gen. John B. Gordon, Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Col. 
Hilary A. Herbert, and Mr. Charles Broadway Rouss; resolu¬ 
tions from the Confederate Veterans’ Association of the District 
of Columbia, Camp No. 171, United Confederate Veterans; 
the Ladies’ Southern Relief Society of the District of Columbia, 
and the Ladies’ Memorial Association of Montgomery, Ala¬ 
bama; also official copies of the drawings showing the site 
and plan of reburial and of the specifications for disinterring 
and reinterring the dead, and for furnishing the headstones, 
and the list of Confederate dead to be reburied in the “ Con¬ 
federate section ” of Arlington cemetery. 

Finally, it is due that my colaborers of the committee should 
receive honorable mention, for they have been very faithful 
and have rendered great service in this work from its inception, 
in August, 1898, to the present date. They are: Maj. E. W. 
Anderson, of the District of Columbia, the first lieutenant com¬ 
mander; Capt. Henry M. Marchant, of Texas, the second 
lieutenant commander; Capt. William Broun, of Virginia, the 
adjutant; Capt. John M. Hickey, of Tennessee; Lieut. Nathan 
C. Munroe, of Georgia; Judge Silas Hare, of Texas; Capt. 
Julian G. Moore, of North Carolina, and Col. George C. Gid- 
dings, of Texas. 

I have the honor to be, yours most obediently, 

Samuel E. Lewis, 

Commander. 


2 


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Appendix No. i. 

A. Petition to the President of the United States. 

B. Report from the Quartermaster General’s Department, 
June 28, 1899. 

C. Better to the Secretary to the President, July 13 , j 899 - 

D. Letter from Gen. John B. Gordon, March 12, 1901. 

E. Letter from Gen. Stephen D. Lee, February 8, 1901. 

F. Letter from Col. H. A. Herbert, February 6, 1901. 

G. Letter from Charles B. Rouss, April 18, 1901. 

H. Resolutions at Charleston, South Carolina, May 11, 1899. 

I. Resolution of the Confederate Veterans’ Association, Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia, Camp No. 171, United Confederate Veterans, 
March 7, 1901. 

K. Resolution of the Ladies’ Southern Relief Society of the 
District of Columbia, February 7, 1901. 

L. Resolution of the Ladies’ Memorial Association of Mont¬ 
gomery, Alabama, April 1, 1901. 

M. Letter to the Secretary of War from the Charles Broad¬ 
way Rouss Camp, No. 1191, United Confederate Veterans, 
March 28, 1901. 

N. The “ Confederate Section" (Explanatory Notes). 

O. List of dead in the “ Confederate Section ” in Arlington 
Cemetery (embracing all those heretofore in the older part of 
Arlington Cemetery and those in the Soldiers’ Home Cem¬ 
etery). 

P. Map of Arlington, Virginia, National Cemetery. 

O. Map of the “ Confederate section ,” Arlington National 
Cemetery. 

R. Map of the burial site in the “ Confederate section.” 

S. Diagram of the neiv headstones for the Confederate dead, 
Arlington, Virginia, National Cemetery. 

T. Specifications for reburial of the Confederate dead. 

U. Specifications for the new headstones for the Confeder¬ 
ate dead. 




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“A.” 

(Copy.) 

A Petition from the Charles Broadzvay Rouss Camp of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., being Camp No. npi of the United Confederate 
Veterans, Relating to the Confederate Graves in the National 
Military and Naval Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia. 

Headquarters 

Charles Broadway Rouss Camp, 

No. 1191, U. C. V., 

1418 Fourteenth Street N. W., 

Washington, D. C. 

To the President of the United States. 

Sir : We appear before you as a committee representing the 
Charles Broadway Rouss Camp of Washington, D. C. (being 
Camp No. 1191 of the United Confederate Veterans), in en¬ 
deavor to perform that which the Camp conceives to be a 
sacred duty and in fulfillment of one of the principal objects of 
the constitution of the United Confederate Veterans, “ to per¬ 
petuate a record of the services of‘every member and, as far as 
possible, of those of our comrades who have preceded us into 
eternity, and to mark with suitable headstones the graves of 
Confederate dead wherever found.” 

We respectful^ crave your attention to the representations 
submitted herein regarding the present condition of the Con¬ 
federate graves in the National Military and Naval Cemetery 
at Arlington and the records pertaining thereto and to our peti¬ 
tion for remedial measures regarding the same. 

Records. —We have found that the register at Arlington is a 
transcript, inaccurate and incomplete, there being headstones 
of Confederate graves in the cemetery the names on which 
appear not to be therein ; no records of the removal of Confed¬ 
erate dead nor of the unknown appear to be there. The Depot 
Quartermaster’s Office reports 141 graves, but the register ap¬ 
pears to show but 113 names. 

We have been informed at the Depot Quartermaster’s Office 
in Washington that the original records are stored in boxes in 
Philadelphia, because there is no suitable fire-proof building 


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in this city for that purpose. The true record is therefore in¬ 
accessible to the public. 

Graves .—The graves are scattered about the cemeter}^ prin¬ 
cipally in three straggling groups, distant from each other, and 
are intermingled with those of United States soldiers, citizens, 
quartermaster’s employes, and negro contrabands, and one is 
forcibly impressed with the idea that they are singularly mis¬ 
placed. There is absolutely no way to distinguish the grave of 
a Confederate soldier from that of a quartermaster’s employe, a 
citizen, or a negro contraband. The same style of headstone 
marks all alike, bearing onty the number of the grave and the 
name of the individual. The slabs are only two inches thick, 
about ten inches wide, and about eighteen inches high. Many 
of them are in exposed places, near low fences, and are liable 
to be stolen or mutilated by evil-minded persons. 

Thus the original records are inaccessible, the transcripts ap¬ 
pear to be incomplete and inaccurate, the headstones lacking in 
information and liable to loss, and the graves scattered from 
one end of the cemetery to the other in confused intermingling 
with others. Such is the condition now, notwithstanding the 
efforts of the courteous and efficient superintendent, and who 
can doubt that, unless remedial measures be at once taken, a 
few years hence all reliable record of these graves will be for¬ 
ever lost. 

Petition .—In remembrance of the noble sentiments uttered 
by you at Atlanta regarding the sharing with us the care of 
Confederate graves, a sentiment highly appreciated by every 
true Southern heart, we feel encouraged to ask your help where 
we are otherwise helpless—that is, in a national cemetery, where 
we have no right of action such as we have in our own Southern 
burial grounds. 

We have been informed that Arlington estate contains about 
eleven hundred acres, and that as yet only two hundred (200) 
acres are in use as cemetery. It is our desire and request that 
of the large unused remainder there shall be parceled off a suit¬ 
able plot of one or more acres, to which shall be gathered to¬ 
gether all the Confederate dead at Arlington and other national 
cemeteries within the District of Columbia ; that they shall be 
arranged in divisions according to States, and that appropriate 
headstones, bearing a legend of the name, company, regiment, 


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and State of the soldier, be placed to mark the grave, and that 
a suitable monument be erected to mark the site. 

And to the end that the facts regarding these soldiers of the 
South shall be made accessible to the public, complete records 
shall be prepared, in triplicate, reciting all the known facts re¬ 
garding their full names, company, regiment, State, capture, 
death, and interment, and that one copy shall be kept at Ar¬ 
lington for visitors, one in the Depot Quartermaster’s Office, in 
Washington, and the third in the War Records Office. 

The committee is of opinion that not only would the South¬ 
ern people highly appreciate such action, but also that there 
are many good people in the North who, no longer cherishing 
animosity, would be gratified at the removal of Confederate 
dead from the midst of the Federal graves. 

To you, as our President, we appeal also in fraternal spirit, 
having all confidence in your wisdom and kindness, that, hav¬ 
ing made our distress and our needs known, we may rest our 
cause in your care, to do or cause to be done that which may 
be determined by you to be most fitting. 

With the highest esteem and best wishes for all good to you 
and those dear to you, we, the committee appointed by our 
camp above named, bring these matters before you ; and, sir, 
though lacking in knowledge as to the details relating to the 
conduct of such matters, it has occurred to us that perhaps all 
remedial measures could be at once effected by an Executive 
order, avoiding the tediousness and delay of legislative action. 

(Signed) Samuel E. Lewis, 

Of the District of Columbia, ist Lieut. Com., 

Chairman. 


(Signed) E. W. Anderson, 

Of the District of Columbia, 2d Lieut. Com. 

(Signed) William Broun, 

Of Virginia, Adjutant. 


(Signed) W. H. C. Bayly,* 

Of the District of Columbia. 

(Signed) John M. Hickey, 

Of Tennessee. 


(Signed) N. C. 

Washington, D. C.,fii7ie 5, 1899. 


Munroe, 

Of Georgia. 


* Died January 4, 1901. 


V 





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“ B.” 

Report prom the Quartermaster Generals Department , Based 
upon the Petition Presented to the President June 5, 1899. 

The report is dated June 28, 1899, and states that there were 
originally 377 interments of Confederate dead in Arlington, of 
which 241 have been removed by the States of Virginia, North 
Carolina, and South Carolina, and that there remain 136; that 
these dead have received honorable burial and honorable care, 
and that proper records have been kept; that the headstones 
are from 36 to 42 inches long and project from the ground 
about 18 inches, and that they are the same size as those for 
Union soldiers, except that they are only two inches thick; that 
these graves are not more exposed than those of the Union 
soldiers; that they receive better care than would be likely 
given them in any private cemetery. 

The recommendations in the report are as follows: 

That if all the dead are at Arlington, those in the groups in 
the northeast corner and the southwest corner be brought to 
the central group, where there are 113 vacant sites; that the 
same headstones might be used by adding the additional in¬ 
scription below the name, but that if new headstones be placed 
they be of similar character as those for the Union soldiers, 
with number of grave, name, and State; that if other dead 
than those at Arlington be discovered, a separate plot of 
one or more acres be set aside in the southern portion of the 
cemetery at Arlington, to which all shall be removed. 

The report also states that there are 128 Confederate graves 
in the National Soldiers’ Home Cemetery. 

This report was forwarded to the President by the Secretary 
of War, and on July 5, 1899, the undersigned was invited 
by letter from the secretary to the President, Mr. George B. 
Cortelyou, to call at the Executive Mansion and read the same. 
After perusal of the report and commenting upon its contents, 
the secretary replied that the President would like to have the 
expression of the views made by the committee put in writing. 

Accordingly, a letter in the nature of an answer to the report 
and supplement to the petition was addressed to the Secretary 
July 13, 1899, as follows: 


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“C.” 

Supplementary to the Petition of June 5, 1899. 

“Headquarters of the 
“Charles Broadway Rouss Camp 

“(Camp No. 1191, U. C. V.), 
“Washington, D. C., July 13, 1899. 

“ Mr. Secretary: 

“ The Committee of the Charles Broadway Rouss Camp on 
Confederate Dead within the District of Columbia, having been 
accorded the privilege of examining the report from the War 
Department relative to the same, desire to express their high 
appreciation of the careful consideration which has been given 
to the matter of the petition presented to the President June 
5th, 1899. The committee find the report to be fair and the 
recommendations reasonable. 

“After carefully weighing the recommendations in the re¬ 
port, the committee remains of opinion that the most satisfac¬ 
tory disposition of the matter would be best effected by carrying 
out the requests expressed on page 3 of the petition, lines 12 
to 28, inclusive, and line 1 on page 4, viz: 

“ ‘ It is our desire and request that of the large unused 
remainder there shall be parceled off a suitable plot of 
one or more acres, to which shall be gathered together 
all the Confederate dead at Arlington and other national 
cemeteries within the District of Columbia ; that they 
shall be arranged in divisions according to States, and 
that appropriate headstones, bearing a legend of the 
name, company, regiment, and State of the soldier, be 
placed to mark the grave (and that a suitable monument 
be erected to mark the site). 

‘ 1 ‘ And to the end that the facts regarding these soldiers 
of the South shall be made accessible to the public, com¬ 
plete records shall be prepared, in triplicate, reciting all 
the known facts regarding their full names, company, 
regiment, State, capture, death, and interment, and that 
one copy shall be kept at Arlington for visitors, one in 
the Depot Quartermaster’s Office in Washington, and 
the third in the War Records Office.’ 

“ It appears to the committee that it is necessary the work 
should be done, and that so thoroughly and permanently as to 
be satisfactory and creditable to all concerned; that it would 
not be sufficient to merely change the inscriptions upon the 
headstones now standing, or to place new headstones, permit- 


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ting the remains to lie where they now are, for the following 
reasons: That now they are passed by unnoticed, but when 
distinguished as Confederates the inappropriateness of their 
ocation and scattered grouping would become apparent to all ; 
that if those in Arlington be all grouped in the central section, 
they would still be in the midst of the grayes of the Union 
soldiers of the civil war; that there would be only 45 grave 
sites remaining for other remains which may hereafter be dis¬ 
covered; that inasmuch as it would be necessary to make a 
number of disinterments, and as the entire number so far dis¬ 
covered is only 264, it is considered that it would be far 
better to disinter all and gather them together in one separate 
plot; also that a simple, inexpensive monument, bearing some 
appropriate but simple inscription, should be placed to mark 
the site; that in so doing the preservation and perpetuation of 
these graves of Southern soldiers would be best effected. 

“As in duty bound, in memory of our dead comrades, the 
committee begs that due consideration be given to the views 
expressed herein. 

“ The committee desires to acknowledge the attention and 
courtesy it has received at your hands. 


“ Respectfully, 


“(Signed) West Steever, 

“ Of Louisiana, Commander. 

“ (Signed) Samuel E. Lewis, 

“ Of the District of Columbia, 1st Lieut. Com., 

“ Chairman. 


“(Signed) E. W. Anderson, 

“ Of the District of Columbia , 2d Lieut. Com. 


( c 


“ (Signed) 
“ (Signed) 
“ (Signed) 
“ (Signed) 


William Broun, 

“ Of Virginia, Adjutant. 

Wm. H. C. Bayly,* 

“ Of the District of Columbia. 

John M. Hickey, 

“ Of Tennessee. 
Nathan C. Munroe, 

‘ ‘ Of Georgia. 


George B. Cortelyou, Esq., 

“ Secretary to the President . ” 


* Died January 4, 1901. 




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“ D.” 

Letter of Endorsement by Commander-in-Chief of the Unibed Con¬ 
federate Veterans. 

“Nevada, Mo., March 12, 1901. 

“ H011. Hilary A. Herbert, 

“ Washington, D. C. 

“ My Dear Comrade: I have just learned through Gen. 
S. D. Lee of some hesitation on the part of the War Depart¬ 
ment to use the money appropriated by Congress for gather¬ 
ing into a common burying ground the Confederate dead who 
lie at different points in the District of Columbia. I have also 
learned for the first time of the reasons for any hesitation on 
the part of the War Department; and I write to say that I sin¬ 
cerely trust that the wishes of our comrades in the District, 
backed as they have been by an appropriation by Congress, 
will be speedily met. The formal action taken by the United 
Confederate Veterans in general reunion clearly shows that 
the organization is in entire accord with the veterans of the 
District. It is not practicable for our ladies to carefully pro¬ 
tect and keep in perfect condition all Confederate graves in the 
entire country, North and South. 

“ With the hope that the appropriation made by Congress 
will be at once used for the purposes for which it was intended, 
and with all good wishes for you individually, I am your com¬ 
rade and friend, 

(Signed) “J. B. Gordon, 

‘ ‘ Atlanta , Georgia . ’ ’ 


“ E. ” 

(Copy.) 

“ Mississippi Historical Society, 
“Headquarters at University, Mississippi, 
“Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Prp;sident, 

“Columbus, Miss., Feb. 8 th, 1901. 

“Hon. Hilary A. Herbert. 

“ My Dear Comrade: I am well informed as to the per¬ 
sistent efforts of the Charles Broadway Rouss Camp of Con¬ 
federate Veterans and kindred Confederate organizations in 
the District of Columbia in having the record corrected of Con¬ 
federate prisoners who died during the war and were buried 
in the National Cemetery at Arlington, and also in the Soldiers’ 



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Home Cemetery. These Confederate soldiers in the District 
have for years worked to get the bodies moved and reburied 
in a separate plot of ground. After hard work they appealed 
to Congress to assist them, and an act was passed appropriat¬ 
ing $2,500 for removal, reburial, and remarking graves and 
ornamenting the plot. 

‘‘It appears that an organization of ladies, full of zeal, is 
endeavoring to stop the work of our comrades and other Con¬ 
federate societies in the District, and defeat what they have 
labored so hard to accomplish. I feel they do not fully under¬ 
stand the surroundings. 

“ The reunion at Charleston fully expressed themselves to 
the effect, viz: That while the ladies in the South would try to 
care for the graves of the fallen Confederates in the Southern 
States, that they were glad to have the Government care for 
the graves in the North. Our comrades in the District, in line 
with this action, nobly went to work and had about succeeded, 
when a new organization of ladies appeared and interfered with 
good, but I think unwise, intent. While it would be well 
could our ladies do all this work, it is of such magnitude that 
it is impossible for them to do so. They can’t properly care 
for the graves of the South; certainly they could not, in addi¬ 
tion, care for 30,000 dead buried at the North. 

“The United States Government honorably buried such 
Confederates as died in their hands. At Chicago they are 
caring for them; in Ohio the same. In fact, the spirit enun¬ 
ciated by President McKinley at Atlanta was most praiseworthy 
and generous and held out the olive branch as to our dead, cer¬ 
tainly at the North; and in that spirit did Congress appropriate 
money to carry out the efforts of our comrades in the District 
as to the removal of bodies and putting them in a separate 
plot. 

“ I do hope the Honorable Secretary of War will cart')' out 
at once the wishes of the District Confederates and permit the 
appropriation to be spent for the object intended. Certainly 
such action must tend to allay sectional feeling and not reopen 
it. I believe prompt action by the Secretary will do great 
good. It is not strange that there should still linger some sec¬ 
tional feeling after so terrible a war, even at this late day. It 
is more strange that such fraternity now exists over our broad 
land. Those of us who want to see all sectional feeling and 
bad blood resulting from the war removed should act always 
in the spirit manifested on all occasions by President McKinley 
whenever he touches on the war. 

“ I therefore hope, my dear comrade, that you may induce 
the Honorable Secretary of War to act promptly in the matter, 
so that the money appropriated may not be returned to the 
Treasury and the effort of a most praiseworthy undertaking 


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become a past incident July ist, 1901, the beginning of the new 
fiscal year. 

“ With kind wishes, 

“ Your comrade and friend, 

“(Signed) Stephen D. Lee.” 


“ F.” 

Copy of a Letter Addressed to the Secretary of the Confederate 
Veterans' Association , No. 77/, U. C. V. 

“ Herbert & Micou, Attorneys-at-Law, 

“ Washington, D. C., February 6, 1901. 

“ My Dear Comrade : I am very sorry that a dinner en¬ 
gagement to meet Miss Mary Lee will prevent me from attend¬ 
ing the meeting of our association to be held tomorrow evening. 

“ I understand that the question is to be discussed as to 
whether the Confederate dead, some of whom are now resting 
in Arlington Cemetery, and others nearby and outside of the 
city, are to be removed to the plot selected as the Confederate 
section of the Arlington Cemetery, or whether they shall be 
given in charge of certain of our dear Southern women, who 
have conceived the idea that these Confederates ought not to 
rest in the same cemetery as the Union dead, but ought to be 
given into their hands, to be removed to some place in the 
South. 

“ In my opinion, it would be a lamentable mistake for Con¬ 
federate Veterans’ Associations to refuse to accept this graceful 
peace overture made by the General Government. 

“ ist. ^Vhen President McKinley on his Southern tour ex¬ 
pressed the idea that the General Government ought to care 
for the graves of the Confederate dead his words were received 
with glad acclaim throughout the South. There were cer¬ 
tainly very few Confederates whose hearts did not respond to 
this sentiment. The appropriation of this money to place the 
remains of the dead whose bodies now lie near Washington 
is a first step in that direction. If we reject this appropriation, 
that will be an end to the whole matter. Congress can never 
again be expected to do anything more in the direction of caring 
for the Confederate dead. 

“2d. The proposition of the Government is, as I understand 
it, to carry out a plan, which, if not disowned by, has at least 
the approval of, leading Confederates here in Washington, to 
devote an entire plot ’of three and a half acres in the Arlington 



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Cemetery to these Confederates, to lay it out with driveways, 
plant it with many varieties of trees, to ornament the center 
with a large vase filled with plants and evergreens ; in short, 
to make the last resting place of these Confederates as beautiful 
and as ornamental as is the resting place of the Union dead, 
and when once laid there, these remains will be cared for per¬ 
petually by the Government. For myself, I fail to see why 
any thoughtful Confederate could fail to be proud that the Gov¬ 
ernment against which we all fought so desperately in the days 
that are gone should have come to recognize in this substantial 
manner the purity of motive, the gallantry, and the patriotism 
of our brethren who fell in the strife. 

“ 3d. Arlington is a place that will be visited by generations 
yet unborn, by both Americans and foreigners. The Confed¬ 
erate section of that cemetery, if established as proposed, would 
direct the attention of every visitor, and would proclaim in un¬ 
mistakable terms the respect and admiration for the Southern 
soldier entertained by his former foes. Can it be possible that 
the real sentiment of the Confederates of this day is that this 
shall not be? If so, then what? 

“ 4th. The alternative seems to be that the remains of those 
soldiers shall be disinterred and sent somewhere South to a 
cemetery where Confederates are already resting. The addi¬ 
tion of the.se remains to any one or more of the Confederate 
cemeteries now scattered throughout the South would add but 
little, if anything, to the beauty, attractiveness, or sacredness 
of these existing cemeteries. The effort, however, to make 
such removal would be an added burden placed upon the 
shoulders of the blessed women who are already overtaxed to 
take care of the cemeteries now in their charge. * * 

I have seen a memorial recently addressed by the ladies of Vir¬ 
ginia to the legislature of that State, asking the legislature 
to contribute small sums of money, and which specifies $10, 
$15, and $20 each to different cemeteries throughout the State, 
and this is asked on the ground that the responsibility of taking 
care of these graves is a heavier one than the associations 
having them in charge are able to bear. 

“Can there be any good reason why the burdens of these 
ladies should be added to by the effort to remove these bodies 
South ? 

“ Lastly. If the bodies of the Confederate dead now lying in 
the District of Columbia and at Arlington Cemetery are taken 
up and carried South, this would be giving up the Capital of 
what is now our common country entirely to the Union dead. 
The Confederate dead will have no interest and no memorial 
telling of them or of their deeds anywhere within the reach of 
the city that was named for George Washington, the greatest 
of American rebels ! 


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Koi myself, I have always believed that the Confederates 
fought foi the Constitution of our fathers—for liberty and good 
government and my belief is that, now that the Confederacy 
has passed away, the only hope for the future of ex-Confeder- 
ates and their descendants lies in the perpetuity of the Union 
of these States under the Constitution of our fathers. 

“ I sincerely hope that our Association will express itself as 
opposed to the removal of these remains, and as decidedly in 
favor of the plan of interring them in Arlington Cemetery. 

“Faithfully yours, 

“(Signed) H. A. Herbert.” 


“ G.” 

(Copy.) 

“Charles Broadway Rouss, 

“ New York City, April 18, 1901. 

“ Charles Broadway Rouss Camp, Washington , D. C. 

“Gentlemen: The papers sent by you relating to the re¬ 
moval of the Confederate dead have been carefully read, and 
I return them, as they may be valuable to you. 

“ I can only repeat with greater emphasis, if possible, what 
I said in my last letter to you—that I know of no more appro¬ 
priate spot than Arlington Cemetery where should rest the 
remains of our dead heroes—and if our great leader, Robert E. 
Lee, were alive, he would say so, and he would doubtless say, 
in addition, that no spot could be as acceptable to him as a 
resting place than that where his wife and children were born 
and the happiest moments of his life were spent. 

“ His was a too exalted spirit to object to sleeping in the 
same cemetery with a brave and gallant foe—a foe which had 
always been as quick and proud to honor him as an illustrious 
soldier as to praise the great warriors of their own side. 

“ Nor would lie spurn the presence of the honored flag which 
floated over the heroic dead of a happy, reunited, and now 
common country because at one time he considered it his duty 
to his State to fight under the Stars and Bars. 

“ Very trill} 7 yours, 


“ (Signed) 


Charles B. Rouss.” 




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“ H.” 

Resolution Presented by Gen . Stephen D. Lee at the Charleston 

Reunion , May n, 1899. 

“ Whereas , in Atlanta, Georgia, on December the 14, 1898, 
the President of the United States of America gave utterance 
to the sentiment * that the time has come when the United 
States should share in caring for the graves of the Confederate 
dead ; ’ and 

“ Whereas this utterance of the Chief Executive of the 
nation demands from us, the survivors of our dead comrades 
in arms, a frank and generous response to so lofty and mag¬ 
nanimous a sentiment: Therefore be it 

“ Resolved by the United Confederate Veterans in annual con¬ 
vocation assembled , That in this act of President McKinley 
and in its reception by our brethren of the North we recognize 
authoritative evidence that we are again a united people and 
one in determination to exhibit to the world the gentler as well 
as the sterner traits of American character, and that we accept 
the statement of our Chief Executive in the spirit in which it 
was made, believing that such legislation by the General Gov¬ 
ernment as he has suggested would show clearly the advance 
that the American people have achieved in those higher virtues 
that adorn a great nation.” 

The above resolution was referred to the Committee on Res¬ 
olutions, which reported the following substitute and recom¬ 
mended its adoption, and it was adopted by formal vote of the 
convention: 

“The United Confederate Veterans in this annual reunion 
desire to place upon record their sincere appreciation of the 
utterances of the President of the United States in Atlanta in 
December last concerning the assumption of the care of the 
graves of our Confederate dead by the National Government. 

“ We appreciate every kindly sentiment expressed, and we 
shall welcome any legislation which shall result in the care of 
the graves of our comrades in the Northern States by our Gov¬ 
ernment. 

“In regard to our dead whose remains are resting in the 
States which were represented in the Confederacy and Mary¬ 
land, the care of their final resting places is a sacred trust, dear 
to the hearts of Southern women, and we believe that we can 
safely let it rest in their hands.” 


O -1 

ol 


“ I.” 

The following resolution was passed by the Confederate 
Veterans’ Association of the District of Columbia, Camp 171, 
U. C. V., March 7, 1901 : 

“ Whereas Congress appropriated the sum of $2,500 for the 
removal of the Confederate dead now scattered about in Ar¬ 
lington Cemetery and Soldiers’ Home, District of Columbia, 
Cemetery, to a desirable and prominent plot, selected and to be 
ornamented and propeily cared for in Arlington Cemetery, 
and not one Confederate camp has been reported as offering 
the slightest objection to the proposed removal of these bodies, 
though the list was published in a large number of newspapers 
throughout the South : Therefore be it 

“Resolved , That a committee of five from the Confederate 
Veterans’ Association, with the privilege of conferring with or 
acting in conjunction with a committee or committees of any 
other Southern organization or organizations favoring this 
movement, be appointed to urge upon the Secretary of War or 
other proper authority the advisability of proceeding at the 
earliest time possible to carry out the object of the act as passed 
by Congress and approved by the President of the United 
States, the money for which is now available.” 


“ K.” 

Resolution of the Ladies' Southern Relief Society of the District 
of Columbia , Passed February 7, 1901. 

“Be it resolved , That this Society takes this method to ex¬ 
press its deep gratification of the passage by the last session of 
Congress of the following resolution : 

“To enable the Secretary of War to have reburied in the 
National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, and to place proper 
headstones at their graves, the bodies of about one hundred 
and twenty-eight Confederate soldiers now buried in the Na¬ 
tional Soldiers’ Home, near Washington, District of Columbia, 
and the bodies of about one hundred and thirty-six Confeder¬ 
ate soldiers now buried in the National Cemetery at Arlington, 
Virginia, two thousand five hundred dollars, or as much 

thereof as may be necessary.” 

“Also that this Society heartily approves of this reburial for 
the reason that it will gather together all the now scattered 








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Confederate dead in one spot ; that each grave will be properly 
marked with a white marble tombstone, and that ever here¬ 
after we can keep faithful guard over the graves of these pa¬ 
triotic soldiers, keep them green, and preserve and perpetuate 
them in the care of our children as a sacred, patriotic shrine 
for all Southern people who may hereafter visit the District of 
Columbia in all time to come. 

“Be it also further resolved, That the Secretary of War be 
properly informed of our approval, and that it is our earnest 
desire that he take immediate, final, and favorable action, in 
older that the work may be done without further delay. 

Virginia Miller, 

President Southern Relief Society , 

District of Columbia , 1729 P Street. 

Mrs. H. Gillenwater, 

Recording Secretary , 1906 New Hampshire Avenue. 


“ L.” 

Resolution Adopted by the Ladies' Memorial Association of Mont¬ 
gomery, Alabama. 

Memorial Association indorse act of Congress. 

Before holding a meeting for the purpose of discussing 
this subject, Mrs. I. M. P. Ockenden, as secretary of the 
Ladies’ Memorial Association, Montgomery, Alabama, wrote 
to all parts of the State asking expressions of opinions, and 
among all the replies she did not receive one adverse communi¬ 
cation. With common accord those interested expressed them¬ 
selves as in favor of giving the Confederate Veterans who man¬ 
aged their affairs in time of war the privilege of deciding for 
them in time of peace. 

The resolutions adopted at this meeting were as follows: 

“ Whereas the act of Congress making an appropriation for 
the reinterment of the Confederate dead now scattered in and 
around Washington, District of Columbia, to a spot selected, 
to be ornamented and cared for by the United States Govern¬ 
ment, in Arlington Cemetery, has been carefully considered 
by us from every point of view; and 

‘ ‘ Whereas the graves are to be marked with marble head¬ 
stones, giving their names, where obtainable, and to be kept 
perpetually cared for, it seems the most conciliatory act of 
legislation yet taken by Congress toward the South; and 




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“ Whereas the United Confederate Veterans, at their an¬ 
nual reunion, indorsed this act, placing on record their appre¬ 
ciation of the utterances of President McKinley in Atlanta con¬ 
cerning the care of the Confederate dead by the National 
Government, which has resulted in this act, which represents 
not the North alone, but the entire country, the spirit of which 
must be accepted without any question of motive, for charity 
is ‘ not easily provoked and thinketh no evil,’ and though our 
patriotism ‘ speaketh with the tongues of men and angels and 
have not charity, it becomes as sounding brass and a tinkling 
cymbal; ’ 

“ Whereas we regret that prominent ladies in various asso¬ 
ciations differ with the United Confederate Veterans and with 
us, the same loving spirit of reverence for our dead animating 
them as ourselves, we ask the kindly judgment founded on 
love, peace, and gentleness; and 

“ Whereas such veterans as Gen. John B. Gordon, of Georgia; 
Generals Morgan, Wheeler, Pettus, and Col. H. A. Herbert, 
of Alabama; Gen. Bate, of Tennessee; Gen. Butler, of South 
Carolina; Gen. Ransom, of North Carolina, and Gen. Stephen 
D. Lee, of Mississippi, including the United Confederate Vet¬ 
erans, have accepted this act in good faith, and such men as 
these having fought our battles in war, we can safely trust 
them to guard our interests in peace, believing they will set us 
no unworthy example nor ask of us anything inconsistent with 
the lofty character of patriotic and devoted Southern women, 
nor of the proud record made by their now silent comrades who 
fought the bravest fight that was ever fought for the fairest 
land in all the world; 

“ Therefore be it resolved , That deploring the fact that there 
exists in this age a citizen of this Republic who could give 
utterance to sentiments of hostility to a fallen foe, and not be¬ 
lieving that such sentiments are representative of the North or 
the Grand Army of the Republic, 

“Be it resolved , That we express ourselves in sympathy with 
the action of the United Confederate Veterans accepting the 
said act of Congress, assisting in the performance of a sacred 
duty in the spirit of gentle judgment, which not only adorns 
the records of chivalry, but is the Christian grace of the great 
brotherhood and sisterhood of mankind. 

“Furthermore , That Hon. H. A. Herbert and Senator Mor¬ 
gan, representing the Confederate Veterans of Alabama, and 
Miss Virginia Miller, president of the Southern Relief Society 
of the District of Columbia, be appointed and requested to 
properly inform the Secretary of War of our action and our 
earnest desire that immediate steps be taken to secure for us 
these honors for our noble and never-to-be-forgotten dead. 


3 


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“Furthermore resolved , That this committee be requested, at 
such time as the sacred remains of our dead be removed, that 
they plan and execute such ceremonies as will fittingly express 
the divine sentiments of love and gratitude which we cherish 
for our beloved dead.” 

On motion these resolutions were passed unanimously. 

(Signed) Committee on Resolutions: Mrs. Emmett Seibels, 
Mrs. E. T. Eedyard, Mrs. S. Hails Janney, Mrs. W. B. Jones. 

For the Memorial Association: Mrs. M. D. Bibb, president 
of the Ladies’ Memorial Association ; Mrs. I. M. Porter 
Ockenden, secretary-treasurer of the Ladies’ Memorial Associa¬ 
tion. 

April i, 1901. 


“ M.” 

The following letter was laid before the Secretary of War 
March 28, 1901 : 

“ Headquarters 

“Charges Broadway Rouss Camp, 

“ No. 1191, U. C. V., 

“ 1418 Fourteenth Street N. W., 
“Washington, D. C., March 28, 1901. 

“ Hon. Eeihu Root, Secretary of War. 

“Sir: I11 high appreciation of the patriotic sentiments ex¬ 
pressed by the President at Atlanta, Georgia, December 14, 
1898, as follows : 

“ ‘And the time has now come in the evolution of sentiment 
and feeling, under the providence of God, when, in the spirit 
of fraternity, we should share with you in the care of the graves 
of the Confederate soldiers.’ 

‘ ‘And also : 

“ ; Every soldier’s grave made during the unfortunate civil 
war is a tribute to American valor,’ and in earnest endeavor to 
carry out one of the principal objects of the constitution of the 
United Confederate Veterans, viz., ‘to perpetuate a record of 
the services of every member and, as far as possible, of those 
who have preceded us into eternity,’ and ‘to mark with suit¬ 
able headstones the graves of Confederate dead wherever found, ’ 
the Charles Broadway Rouss Camp of United Confederate Vet¬ 
erans of the District of Columbia, through its committee, peti- 


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tioned the President of the United States, June 5, 1899, request¬ 
ing remedial measures relating to the care of the dead in the 
District of Columbia, which resulted in an appropriation by the 
Congress, approved June 6, 1900, of $2,500 for the purpose of 
reinterring and suitably marking the remains of about 264 Con¬ 
federate dead in a suitable spot in Arlington Cemetery. 

• “ I11 accordance with the law thus enacted, the Government 

selected a site and prepared drawings of the plan of burial, 
which were acceptable to the committee and unanimously ap¬ 
proved by the Camp, as well as by the sister Confederate socie¬ 
ties in the District of Columbia, viz., ‘The Confederate Vet¬ 
erans’ Association, No. 171, U. C. V.,’ ‘The Ladies Southern 
Relief Society,’ ‘The United Sons of Confederate Veterans,’ 
and ‘ The Daughters of the Confederacy,’ and by the Southern 
people resident in Washington generally. 

“ It has recently come to our knowledge that protests have 
been made to the Secretary of War by an organization very re¬ 
cently formed, purporting to be interested in the erection of 
monuments in cemeteries to the memory of Confederate dead, 
that the existing law be set aside and that the remains of the 
dead of each State be shipped to that State for reburial there. 

“ We are of the opinion that no one whatever has any right 
to these remains other than their relatives and the United States 
Government, which gave them honorable interment more than 
thirty-five years ago, and which has given them honorable care 
through all the years since, like unto that which has been ac¬ 
corded the Federal dead, and we would view with great sorrow 
the carrying out of the plan proposed by the organization above 
referred to ; would deem it a desecration, a great wrong to our 
revered dead comrades and their possible living descendants. 

“ We are not aware that any of the members of that organ¬ 
ization are related to these dead, and we feel assured that they 
are not from the fact that as long ago as last August the War 
Department furnished a complete list of them, which was pub¬ 
lished in full by newspapers generally throughout the South, 
as also by some Northern newspapers, notably the New York 
Journal and the Baltimore Sun, and to this date not one of these 
dead soldiers has been claimed by any one, and the natural infer¬ 
ence, after so long a period, is that no one will ever be so claimed. 

“ It is our earnest desire that these dead comrades remain in 
the care of the United States Government, having every confi¬ 
dence they will continue to receive that honorable care which 
has heretofore been accorded them, and that they may remain 
here, near to their numerous living comrades and friends in the 
District of Columbia. 

“ Therefore we beg leave to submit the above for your con¬ 
sideration, and earnestly request that the provisions of the law 



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as existing may be executed at as early a date as may be prac¬ 
ticable and consistent with your views. 


“ Very respectfully, 
“ (Signed) 

“ (Signed) 

‘ ‘ (Signed) 

“ (Signed) 

* *(Signed) 

* ‘(Signed) 

“ (Signed) 


Samuel E. Lewis, 

“ Commander , 

“ Chairman. 

E. W. Anderson, 

“First Lieut. Com. 

H. M. Marchant, 

“ Second Lieut. Com. 

William Broun, 

“ Adjutant. 

John M. Hickey, 

“Of Temiessee. 

N. C. Munroe, 

“Of Georgia. 

Silas Hare, 

‘ ‘ Of Texas. 


“ N.” 

The Confederate Section. 

(Explanatory Notes.) 

The entire plot (square) has an area of about three and one- 
third acres. The largest circle is 300 feet in diameter and has 
an area of about one and three-fifths acres. 

In the center is a reservation for a monument in the future, 
but to be occupied by a large iron vase, filled with plants and 
evergreens, in the meantime. 

The graves are in the quadrants of the circle, arranged as 
radii, and the headstones will be in concentric circles. 

Outside the largest circle are to be Southern ornamental 
trees, artistically placed, and the interior of the circle will have 
suitable small trees and shrubbery so placed as to artistically 

define the quarter-sections. 

There are thirty-two varieties of trees to be used. 

The driveways are to be solidly built up, graded, graveled, 
rolled, and drained. 

The carriage driveway extends from the main or broad 





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avenues, around the larger circle and up the four straight ways, 
to the smaller circle around the monument site. 

All the driveways are 20 feet wide. 

The plot is designed for 264 graves, but there is ample space 
for all future interments between the radii. 

Note.—S ee the final report, dated November 12, 1901. 


“O.” 

Memorandum.—November 12 , iyor . 

This report originally contained the separate lists of 128 in 
the Soldiers’ Home Cemetery and 136 in the older part of Ar¬ 
lington Cemetery, but the work of reburial now having been 
completed, those separate lists are replaced by the following 
combined list : 


List of Inscriptions on the Headstones Over the Graves of the Confederate 
Dead in the New “ Confederate Section ” 

National Cemetery, Near Washington , D. C. 


1. Corporal C. W. Riel. .. . 

2. N. A. Rogers. 

3. J. W. Wilson. 

4. T. R. Carlton. 

5. Jonathan Niekens. 

6. W. H. Gusston. 

7. Win. Brown. 

8. E. T. Arnies. 

9. W. F. Reynolds. 

10. A. J. Bay less .. 

11. Merida Brown. 

12. Fleming Jordan. 

13 Lieutenant B. F. Persons 

14. T. H. Hickman . .. 

15. W. A. Phillips. 

16 Sergeant E. P. Stanley.. 

17. W. P. Bernard. 

18. W. L Brown. 

19. J. A. Smith. 

20. Janies Russell. 

21. W. C. Clieseldine. 

22. W. J. Perkins. 

23. Unknown. ...... 

24. Jno. Leacock. 

25. W. J. Gray. 

26. Unknown. 

27. Unknown. 

28. Fritz Kimple. 


in the Arlington , Virginia , 
C. 

Co. H, 6th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. E, 44th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. B. 2d North Carolina Inf. 

Co. B, 57th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. A, 5th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. E, 44th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. F, 5th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. E, 5th South Carolina Inf. 
Co. F, 1st Louisiana Infantry. 
Co. K, 63d Tennessee Infantry. 
Co. E, Phillips’ Legion, Ga. Inf. 
Co. G, 4th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. G, 4th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. B, 12th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. B, 4th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. D, 4th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. A, 44th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. I, 21st Georgia Infantry. 

Co. H, 16th Georgia Infantry. 

-, 43d Georgia Infantry. 

Co. C, 1st Maryland Cavalry. 

-, 7th-Cavalry. 

-, 103d Virginia Militia. 

Citizen, State Prisoner. 

Prisoner of war. 

* . * 

Captain. 

Co. A, 12th Mississippi Infantry. 






































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29. W. R. Dearing . 

30. Captain T. W. Farrell. 

31. R. T. J. Harris. 

32. James Scales. 

33. W. C. West. 

34. Leon Brower. 

35. H. Howard. . .. 

36 Corporal W L. Nicks.. 

37. W. H. Worley... 

38. Corporal Winston Meredith. 

39. A. J. Mustain. 

40. Win. Holder. 

41. Jacob Barnes. ... . 

42. Janies McCallen. 

43. Jno. Burns. 

44. Corporal A. A. Bostain.... 

45. J. F. Dean. 

46. D. G. Coleman. 

47. D. W. Berry. 

48. Wm. Stone.. 

49. Jerry Cronan.. 

50. W. C. Tripp.. 

51. J. L. Epps.. 

52. J. A. Jackson. 

53. Janies McClendon. 

54. Corporal T. C. Turner. 

55. J. A. Curry. 

56. Elias McElveen. . 

57. F. M. Autry. 

58. Jno. Abney . 

59 - E S. La}. 

60. Tlios. Rodgers. 

61. Dan. Conley. 

62. J. D. Ballowe .. 

63. J. W Purse ... . 

64. Lewis Glease . 

65. Janies West. 

66. Unknown. 

67. Unknown . . 

68. Isaac Neill . 

69 Michael Quinn . . . 

70 Janies Lynn. 

71. T. F. Morgan. 

72. J. S. Russell.. 

73. James Foreman. 

74. W111. Herod. 

75. Jno. Roberts. 

76. Lieutenant W. S. Renfral. 

77. Samuel Moorman. 

78. Captain E- W. Capps. 

79. Sergeant Robert Wood. 

80. W. Hadgkins. 

81. Sergeant S. J. Boyce. 

82. Uriah Rash. 

83. Rufus Walston. 

84. J. D. Bounds. 

85. N. L. Craft . 

86. H. W. Overcash. 

87. C. Kinkin. ... 

88. Wm Esters. 


Co. A, 19th Mississippi Infantry. 
Co. E, 12th Mississippi Infantry. 
Co. B, 6th Alabama Infantry. 

Co. I, 17th Alabama Infantry. 
Co. F, 4th Alabama Infantry. 

Co. I, 61st Alabama Infantry. 

Co. A, 61st Alabama Infantry. 
Co. B, 61st Alabama Infantry. 
Danville Artillery, Virginia 
Jones’ Batt’y, Virginia H. A. 

Co. H, 21st Virginia Infantry. 
Co. H, 24th Virginia Infantry. 
Co. D, 2(1 North Carolina Inf. 

Co. C, 5th North Carolina Cav. 
Co. H, 15th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. K, 57th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. I, 43d North Carolina Inf. 
Co. A, 20th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. C, 6th North Carolina Inf. 

Co. K, 1st South Carolina Cav. 
Co. E, 10th Louisiana Infantry. 
Co. B, 44th Tennessee Infantry. 
Co. A, Cobb’s Georgia Legion. 
Co. B, 12th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. G, 64th Georgia Infantry 
Co. C, 12th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. E, 12th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. E, 20th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. D, 12th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. D, 45th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. G, 35th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. G, 21st Georgia Infantry. 
Citizen, Pris. 

, . 

‘ , • 

Citizen. Pris. 

Prisoner. 

, . 

, . 

Co. D, 16th Mississippi Infantry. 
Co. P', 13th Mississippi Infantry. 
Co. K, 12th Mississippi Infantry. 
Co. F, 59th Alabama Infantry. 
Co. I, 61st Alabama Infantry. 

Co. E, 59th Alabama Infantry. 
Co. E, 6th Alabama Infantry. 

Co D, 15th Alabama Infantry. 
Co. H, 12th Alabama Infantry. 
Co. K, 7th Virginia Cavalry. 

Co. C, 15th Virginia Cavalry. 

Co. F, 19th Virginia Infantry. 

Co. A, 115th Virginia Militia. 

Co. K, 30th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. H, 44th North Carolina Inf. 
Co G, 13th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. E, 38th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. K. 52d North Carolina Inf. 
Co. B, 57th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. C, 44th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. D, 5U1 South Carolina Cav. 





































































89. Sergeant T. D. King. 

90. U. P. Nichols. 

91. S. Jessup. 

92. A. H Early. . 

93. N. S. Bates . 

94 Patrick Boyle... 

95. J. M. Page . 

96. J. H. Hagans... 

97. J. T. Graves. . 

98. F. M. Threlkeld. 

99. D. L- Taylor. 

100. J. H. Rogers . 

101. C. B. Chollette. 

102. James Beck... 

103. Tlios. McMeekin . 

104. Geo. Daymund. 

105. Wm. Loveless. 

106. Unknown. 

107. Unknown . . 

108. W. N. Jenkins. 

109. Harvey Barnett. 

110. H. H. Roberts. 

nr. J. C. Cannon . 

112. Willis Kenneman. 

113. Janies Sandlin.. . .. 

114. Wilson Taylor. 

115. J. W. Barkley.. 

116. G. W. Raynor. 

117. J. 'A. Murpliv. 

118. -Loop. 

119. Peter Moss . 

120. A. T. Rea. 

121. Wm. Tucker.. 

122. J. W. Cox.. 

123. Sergeant J. W. Armsworthy 

124. Corporal Simeon Swanson.. 

125. J. B. Ralph. 

126. A. J. Bethune. 

127. Captain W. E. Davis. 

128. J. E. Marshall. 

129. H. A. Barber . . 

130. Corporal R P. Many. 

131. Lafayette Hogan . 

132. B H. Hickman. 

133. E. K. Field. 

134. Captain J. Y. Bediugfield. .. 

135. Sergeant J. T. Hardy . 

136. Sergeant J. A. Bennett. 

137 E. F. Nowell . 

138. M. C. Pool. 

139. Sergeant Janies McCord .... 

140. Win. Crawford.. 

141. G. J. Holmes. 

142. J. M. Perry. 

143. Sergeant J110. Anderson. 

144. J. K. Lloyd. 

145. T. H. Hudson. . 

146. J. T. Looney... 

147. G. L- Holt. 

148. J. J. Ashby. 


Co. I, 9th Louisiana Infantry. 

-, 1st Tennessee Infantry. 

Co. C, 4th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. I, 41I1 Georgia Infantry. 

-, 19th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. B, 19th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. B, 37th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. H, 44th Georgia Infantry. 
Co. H, 45th Georgia Infantry. 
Co. F, 27th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. G, 12th Georgia Infantry. 
Co. B, Cutt’s Georgia Battalion. 
Co. F, White’s Battery. 

-,-Artillery. 

! r , * 

Citizen, prisoner. 

Prisoner. 

, • 

, . 

-, 19th, Mississippi Infantry. 

Co. K, 19th Mississippi Infantry. 
Co. H, 37th Mississippi Infantry. 

-, 61st Alabama Infantry. 

-, 12th Alabama Infantry. 

Co. I), 9th Alabama Infantry. 
Co. C, 61st Alabama Infantry. 
Co. C, 59th Alabama Infantry. 
Co. G, 12tli Alabama Infantry. 
Co. C, 17th Virginia Infantry. 

-, 19th Virginia Infantry. 

Co. B, 1st Virginia Infantry. 

Co. K, 19th Virginia Infantry. 
Co. C, 36th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. G, 2d North Carolina Inf. 
Co. H, 54th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. K, 44th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. H, 5th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. A, 63d North Carolina Inf. 
Co. B, 30th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. G, 13th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. G, 6th South Carolina Inf. 

3d Co., Washington Art., La. 

Co. G, 14th Tennessee Infantry. 
Co. F, 38th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. K, 24th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. G, 60th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. B, 60th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. B, 7th Georgia Infantry. 

-, 31st Georgia Infantry. 

Co. I, 13th Georgia Infantry. 

-, 13th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. H, 44th Georgia Infantry. 
Co. A, 26th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. K, 12tli Georgia Infantry. 

Co. K, 44th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. E, 45th Georgia Infantry. 
Page’s Batt’11, Virginia Artillery. 
Louisiana Rifles. 


> 

Citizen. 


















































































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149 - Robert Beachman. 

150. Wm. Inkfield. 

151. Unknown. 

152. Unknown. 

153. J. R. Mullins.. 

154. E- R. Coleman. 

155. J. L. Riley. 

156. L ■ G. Getiss. 

157. Henry Span.. 

158. J. W. Norwood. 

159. G. H. Smith. 

160. Wm. Wilkerson. .. 

161. J. McDonald . 

162. C. B. Royston. 

163. H. M. Shaw . 

164. P R. Scroggin. 

165. J. H. Chism. 

166. Noah Farmer. 

167. G. W. Hubbard. 

168. Juo. Kirk ... . 

169. W. O. Pollard.. 

170. Juo. Finch. 

171. Wm. Beal . 

172. Corporal Asa Williams. 

173. Andrew Pfaff. 

174. Wm. Stravliorn. 

175. Juo. Harris . 

176. W. E. Jenkins. 

177. T. C. Christopher. 

178. Corporal Green Sayles. 

179. Pinckney Prolhro. 

180. W. H. Colquitt. 

181. James Conaghan. 

182. A. J. Waldrip ... . 

183. Aaron Morris.. 

184. Homer Broxton. 

185. Joseph Genrard.. 

186. Joshua Kirkland. 

187. B. B. Burdick. 

188. W. D. Amos. 

189. W. H. Brand. 

190. J. H. Wallace. 

191. C. M. Cannon. 

192. G. W. Hall. 

193 H. W. Crone. 

194. W. H. Cole. . 

195. J110. Brown. 

196. Geo. Whaley. 

197. James Emory. 

198. W111. Keyes. 

199. Unknown. 

200. Unknown. 

201. A. M. McAllister. 

202. C. M. Jones. .. 

203. N. B. Bryant. 

204. Geo. Johnson. 

205. Wyatt Jackson .. 

206. Thos. McGee. 

207. T. B. Thompson ... 

208. W. B. Cain. 


Citizen, prisoner. 

Prisoner. 

, . 

, • 

Co. H, 42d Mississippi Infantry. 
Co. A, 17th Mississippi Infantry. 
Co. I, 21st Mississippi Infantry. 
Co. K, 2d Mississippi Bat. 

Co. C, 1 ith Florida Infantry. 

Co. I, 3d Alabama Infantry. 

-, 14th Alabama Infantry. 

Co. F, 43d Alabama Infantry. 

Co I, 3d Alabama Infantry. 

Co. D, 14th Alabama Infantry. 
Co. K, 41st Alabama Infantry. 
Co. B, 17th Virginia Infantry. 
Co. H, 38th Virginia Infantry. 
Co. C, 24th Virginia Infantry. 
Co. D. 28th Virginia Infantry. 
Co. H, 14th Virginia Infantry. 
Co. C, 44th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. A, 47th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. G, 48th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. I, 2d North Carolina Cav. 

Co. D,- North Carolina -. 

Co. H, 15th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. H, 22d North Carolina Inf 
Co C, 44th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. B, 14th South Carolina Inf. 

-, Louisiana Guards Artillery. 

Co. I), 2d Georgia Infantry. 

Co. H, 31st Georgia Infantry. 

Co. I, 13th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. K, 14th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. C, 3d Georgia Infantry. 

Co. E, 3d Georgia Infantry. 

-, 18th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. H, 48th Georgia Infantry. 
Co. D, 12th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. 1), 5th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. G, 35th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. F, 21st Georgia Infantry. 

Co. H. 9th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. E, 60th Georgia Infantry. 
Page’s Batt’11, Virginia Artillery. 
Co. E, 7th Virginia Infantry. 

> • 

Citizen. 

Citizen, prisoner. 

Prisoner. 

, . 


Co. H, 19th Mississippi Infantry. 
Co. I. 14th Mississippi Infantry. 
Co. K, 19th Mississippi Infantry. 
Co. H, 17th Mississippi Infantry. 
Co. K, 2d Florida Infantry*. 

-, 1st Alabama Infantry. 

-, 5th Alabama Infantry. 

Co. E, 9th Alabama Infantry. 













































































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209. P. H. Flanuey. 

210. Lieutenant E. M. Cook . 

211. Jno. Mead. 

212. G. W. L/OOp. 

213. Captain J. F. Jordan ... . 

214. Jno. Goodener. 

215. W. G. King. 

216. Robert Bibb. . 

217. A. King..-. 

218. W. A. Sink.. 

219. Obed Reep. 

220. Samuel Hill. 

221. Peter Yont. 

222. Robert Johnson. 

223. Tobias Beaver. 

224. Sergeant J. B. Ellen. 

225. Lieutenant Thomas Cowan . . . 

226. J. N. Saxon. 

227. H. W. Cannon. 

228. W. W. Wright. ... 

229. J. C. Greene. 

230. W. B. Jones. 

231. Samuel Hughes. 

232. J. F. Butler. .. 

233. Wm. Snyder.. 

234. W. J. McLendon. 

235. Janies Nail. . 

236. B. Knowles.. 

237. J. A. Poer. 

238. W. L. McClain. 

239. Corporal W. H. Dyess. 

240. Corporal C. W. Taylor. 

241. H. E. Lawhorne. 

242. W. G. Parsons . 

243. G. Monroe. 

244. J. P. Thomas. 

245. W. A. Heavener. 

246. M, Meulin. 

^47’ J* K ^. . 

248. Unknown. 

249. H. S. Palmer. 

250. M. V. Reese. 

251. Janies Booth. 

252. J. G. Sumrall. 

253. J. D. Hubbard. 

254. Franklin Furr. 

255. D. L- Carroll. 

256. Janies D0110I100. 

257. J. S. Raney. 

258. D. Hennessy. 

259. Alex. Corder. 

260. H. T. Elam. 

261. G. W. Rice. 

262. H. R. Fones. . 

263. G. Joyce. . 

264. Sergeant B. F. Kirby. 


Co. I, 8th Alabama Infantry. 

Co. F, iotli Alabama Infantry. 
Co. G, loth Alabama Infantry. 
Co. D, nth Virginia Infantry. 
Co. B, 13th Virginia Cavalry. 

Co. A, 24th Virginia Infantry. 
Co. K, 28th Virginia Infantry. 
Co. E, 4th Virginia Infantry. 

Co. H, 55th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. F, 15th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. K, 23d North Carolina Inf. 
Co. F, 41st North Carolina Inf. 
Co. E, 57th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. I, 11 th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. C, 57th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. D, 30th North Carolina Inf. 
Co. B, 3d North Carolina Inf. 

Co. I), 9th Louisiana Infantry. 
Co. F, 3d Georgia Infantry. 

Co. I, 19th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. B, 4th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. B, 9th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. F. 26th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. B, 18th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. D, 62d Georgia Infantry. 

Co. K, 23d Georgia Infantry. 

Co. K, 61st Georgia Infantry. 

Co. A, -Georgia-. 

Co. D, 4th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. A, 4th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. C, 12th Georgia Infantry. 

Co. C, 60th Georgia Infantry. 
Page’s Batt’11, Virginia Artillery. 

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Citizen. 

Citizen, prisoner. 

Citizen, prisoner. 

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Co. E, 42d Mississippi Infantry. 
Co. H, 42d Mississippi Infantry. 
Co. I, nth Mississippi Infantry. 
Co. B, 13th Mississippi Infantry. 
Co. G, 8th Florida Infantry. 

Co. B, 14th Alabama Infantry. 
Co. D, 5th Alabama Infantry. 

Co. C, 9th Alabama Infantry. 

Co. I, 9th Alabama Infantry. 

Co. I, 8th Alabama Infantry. 

Co. I, 49th Virginia Infantry. 
Co. A, nth Virginia Infantry. 
Co C, nth Virginia Infantry. 
Co. C, 47th Virginia Infantry. 
Co. B, 6th Virginia Infantry. 

Co. C, 61st Virginia Infantry. 


Note.—I ll addition to the inscriptions above given, the letters 
“ C. S. A.” appear on each headstone. 

































































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“ T.” 

Public Poster and Circular. 

(. Advertisement .) 

Inviting proposals for removing remains of Confederate dead 
at Arlington and Soldiers’ Home National Cemeteries, and 
reinterring them in the Arlington, Virginia, National Cem¬ 
etery. 

Depot Quartermaster’s Office, 

Washington, D. C., May i, 1901. 

Sealed proposals, in duplicate, subject to the usual condi¬ 
tions, will be received at this office until 2 o’clock p. in., Fri¬ 
day, May 10, 1901, for removing the remains of the Confed¬ 
erate dead from the Arlington, Virginia, and Soldiers’ Home, 
District of Columbia, National Cemeteries, and reinterring 
them in the Arlington National Cemetery, in accordance with 
the specifications hereto appended. 

The work is to be commenced immediately upon notification 
of the acceptance of proposal and must be completed within 
thirty (30) days thereafter. 

Envelopes containing proposals should be marked “ Pro¬ 
posals for removing Confederate dead,” and be addressed to 
the Depot Quartermaster, Washington, D. C. 

T. E. True, 

Major and Quartermaster , U. S. Army , 

4633—1901. Depot Quartermaster. 


Specifications. 

The work to be done consists in the removal of such remains 
of Confederate dead as are now buried in the Arlington, Vir¬ 
ginia, and Soldiers’ Home, District of Columbia, National 
Cemeteries, and their reinterment in the Arlington National 
Cemetery in a plot to be designated hereafter, the number of 
remains to be thus removed being about 128 from Soldiers’ 
Home and about 136 from Arlington. 

Disinterments. —The graves to be excavated to their full 
original depth and width, and all remains found therein to be 
carefully deposited in boxes to be provided for that purpose. 
The work at each cemetery to be done under the supervision 
and to the satisfaction of the superintendents thereof. 

Boxing. —The remains from each grave to be boxed sepa¬ 
rately, in a box of suitable dimensions, made of good, sound, 
one-inch, rough pine lumber, provided with cover, dressed 




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one side, securely nailed, and properly labeled, to insure indenti- 
fication of the remains at time of reinterment. 

Transportation .—The remains from Soldiers’ Home, when 
thus boxed, to be transported in acceptable covered wagons to 
the Arlington National Cemetery. 

Reinterments .—The graves in Arlington for the reinterment 
of the remains will be dug where directed by the superintendent 
of the National Cemetery. They will not be less than four 
and one-half (4^2 ) feet in depth and of such length and width 
as may be required by the size of the box containing the re¬ 
mains to be interred therein. The remains will be reinterred 
immediately upon their delivery at Arlington, and the graves 
carefully refilled and thoroughly tamped. 

Refilling Graves , etc .—•Upon completion of the work of ex¬ 
huming the remains, the graves are to be refilled and thor¬ 
oughly tamped, and all rubbish removed. 

When the graves in the Arlington National Cemetery shall 
have been refilled and tamped, they are to be well sodded and 
all surplus earth removed from the grounds. 

White marble headstones will be supplied by the United 
States to mark each grave, and the work specified herein will 
include the setting of the headstones. 

Any information desired will be furnished on application to 
the Depot Quartermaster, Washington, D. C. 

Proposals will be as follows : 

1 st. For removing and reinterring the remains from Soldiers’ 
Home, District of Columbia, National Cemetery. 

2d. For removing and reinterring the remains from graves 
in Arlington. 

3d. For setting headstones at the graves. 


“U.” 

Public Poster and Circular. 

(A dvertisement ) 

Inviting proposals for furnishing headstones for graves of 
Confederate dead in Arlington, Va., National Cemetery. 

Depot Quartermaster’s Office, 

Washington, D. C., May 10, 1901. 

Sealed proposals, in duplicate, subject to usual conditions, 
will be received here until 2 o’clock p. m. Monday, May 20, 
1901, and then opened, for furnishing 264 (more or less) white 
marble headstones to mark the. graves of the Confederate 


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dead in the Arlington, Va., National Cemetery, in accordance 
with specifications therefor hereto appended. 

The right is reserved to reject or accept any or all proposals 
or any part thereof. 

Envelopes containing proposals should be marked ‘ ‘ Pro¬ 
posals for headstones,” and be addressed to the Depot Quarter¬ 
master, Washington, D. C. 

T. E. True, 

Major and Quartermaster , U. S. Army , 

Depot Quartermaster. 


Specifications . 

There will be required 264 headstones, more or less, to be 
of American wdiite marble, in slabs not less than 36 inches 
long, 10 inches wide, and a uniform thickness of 4 inches 
throughout, with bottoms square and at right angles to sides, 
of fine grain, good texture, and hard; of grade known to the 
trade as No. 1; the top of the stones to be slightly pointed, as 
per drawing, and the edges slightly rounded; that portion of 
each stone which will be above ground when set (18 inches 
from top) to be sand-rubbed; each stone to be inscribed with 
number of the grave, the name of the occupant (if known), 
his rank (if other than a private), and the name of the organ¬ 
ization to which he belonged, all on one face. If the name is 
not known, then the word “Unknown” simply shall be in¬ 
scribed. The figures and letters composing the inscription to 
be incised, one (1 ) inch in length and three-sixteentlis (3-16) of 
an inch deep; the letters and figures of the inscriptions to be 
accurately spaced and aligned, properly and tastefully arranged, 
and smoothly and carefully cut. Abbreviations may be made 
in the Christian or first name of the deceased and in his rank, 
as also in the name of his organization, providing that all such 
abbreviations shall be made in accordance with the list of in¬ 
scriptions to be furnished by this office. In all cases of abbre¬ 
viation, and wherever required, proper punctuation shall be 
observed. In all cases the inscription of the name will be cut 
on the stone in a curve, as per drawing. The work on the 
stone to be neat and strictly workmanlike in all respects. 

All stones and workmanship to be subject to inspection and 
acceptance by an officer or agent of the United States. The 
expense of handling the headstones while being thus inspected 
must be borne by the contractor. 

The stones, after inspection and acceptance by such officer 
or agent, if prepared at a place other than Washington, D. C., 
to be carefully and securely boxed or crated, separately, 
fully covering the inscription. The outside of boxes or crates 
to be planed and to be marked with name and address of con- 


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signee. The stones to be delivered, freight paid, at Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., consigned to the Depot Quartermaster, within 30 
days from date of notice of acceptance of proposal. 


Supplement. 

The Resolutions Relating to the Care of the Confederate Dead , as 

Passed in the Reunion Convention of the United Confederate 

Veterans , held at Memphis , Tennessee ) May 28, 29, 30, 1901. 

The following resolution was submitted for the consideration 
of the Committee on Resolutions of the Convention by Samuel 
E. Lewis, M. D., the commander of the Charles Broadway Rouss 
Camp of Washington, D. C. (No. 1191, United Confederate 
Veterans), through Col. Hilary A. Herbert, the member of the 
committee from the District of Columbia, on Wednesday, the 
29th of May, 1901: 

“Resolved ) That we hereby extend our thanks to the Con¬ 
gress and to the President of the United States for the act of 
Congress, approved on the 6th day of June, 1900, for the re¬ 
interment in Arlington Cemetery of the Confederate dead now 
in the National Cemeteries at Washington, District of Colum¬ 
bia.” 

which having been favorably acted upon by the Committee on 
Resolutions and amended by the following: 

“That whenever any State of the South, or any organized 
memorial association from any Southern State, shall ask for 
the dead of such State, we ask that such request be granted.” 

the whole was unanimously adopted by the committee, and 
its chairman was directed to so inform the convention and 
recommend its passage. 

At the same time that the above resolution and amendment 
was considered and adopted in the Committee on Resolutions, 
there was also held under consideration the following resolu¬ 
tion offered by Gen. Stephen D. Lee: 

“Resolved , That we respectfully request that Congress take 
appropriate action looking to the care and preservation of the 



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graves of Confederate dead now in the various cemeteries in the 
Noithern States.” 

These two resolutions, having been unanimously adopted by 
the committee, were reported by its chairman, Gen. Thomas W. 
Carvvile, of South Carolina, to the assembled Convention, and 
having been read for the information of the Convention by the 
Commander-in-chief, Gen. John B. Gordon, and endorsed by 
General Cabell, of Texas, and others, they were unanimously 
adopted, with very great enthusiasm. 


Official Action of Charles Broadway Rouss Camp , U. C. V ., 

June 15, 1901. 

“ Whereas Commander Samuel E. Lewis, chairman of the 
delegation to the Reunion Convention at Memphis, having re¬ 
ported as follows : 

“ 4 On May 29th your chairman submitted for the considera¬ 
tion of the Convention the following resolution : 

“ ‘ Resolved , That we hereby extend our thanks to the Con¬ 
gress and the President of the United States for the act of Con¬ 
gress, approved on the 6th day of June, 1900, for the reinter¬ 
ment in Arlington Cemetry of the Confederate dead now in the 
national cemeteries at Washington, D. C.’ 

‘ ‘ Which resolution was amended as follows : 

“ * That whenever any State of the South, or any organized 
memorial association from any Southern State, shall ask for the 
dead of such State, we ask that such request be granted.’ 

“And the resolution, thus amended, was unanimously adopted 
by the Convention, with great enthusiasm : 

“ Be it resolved , That a copy of said report be forwarded to 
Mr. George B. Cortelyou, the Secretary to the President, for 
the information of the President ; and, furthermore, that we 
testify our high appreciation of the most commendable attitude 
of the Government throughout, from the President to the most 
humble employe, since presenting our petition, June 5, 1899, 
and express our grateful thanks for the same and for the beau¬ 
tiful and appropriate site and plan of reburial for the Confed¬ 
erate dead at Arlington. 

A true copy. 

“ Wm. Broun, Adjutant 



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“Executive Mansion, 

“ Washington, June iS, 190U 

“ My Dear Sir : I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your 
letter of the 15th instant, embodying a copy of resolutions re¬ 
cently adopted by your organization, and to state that its con¬ 
tents have been noted. 

“ Very truly yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou, 

‘ ‘ Secretary to the President, 

Mr. William Broun, 

“ Adjutant , etc ., 14 r 8 Fourteenth Street N. IV., 

“ Washington , D. C. 



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